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ITT Flygt will be supplying the submersible mixers, diffusers and piping system for the new biological treatment process at the City of Vienna’s main wastewater treatment plant. The plant is currently undergoing expansion, raising the capacity by 60% to serve the equivalent of 4 million people.

Carver Pump has been notified by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Operations, of Pascagoula , Mississippi of its intention to exercise its option for the fifth shipset of centrifugal pumps for the San Antonio Class (LPD-17) Dock Landing Ships.

Madrid-Barajas Airport is the fifth busiest European airfield today and the one with the highest increase in passenger traffic over the last years. To cope with this continous upward trend, the airport is now being extended. ABS pumps are used during the construction of new terminal buildings and runways.

With the deployment of about 60 submersible motor pumps and free service, KSB is supporting emergency teams in the South-East of France to eradicate flood damage. Yesterday, the first pumping sets went into operation in the Provence towns of Alès, Aramon and Bagnols-sur-Cèze.

ABS in China has delivered a number of wastewater pumps to the new proving ground at the Shanghai Volkswagen plant. China and Germany own this car-making joint venture equally. The Shanghai Volkswagen plant has an annual capacity of 300.000 cars and employs more than 10.000 people.

And, what better place could there be for ABS pumps than a water park? Currently there are over 40 ABS pumps installed in Ontario Place for powering waterfalls, recirculating water in rides, and handling waste from kitchens and bathrooms.

Australia ‘s first membrane bio-reactor wastewater treatment plant, on Magnetic Island in Queensland, has been praised by environmentalists concerned about the well being of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and has attracted significant local government interest.

An interesting bridge rehabilitation project in Vienna was successfully run with WOMA’s high-pressure pump type 6001. The carrier frame of the reinforced concrete bridge needed an extension. It was, therefore, required to expose part of the steel reinforcement of the edge beam.

Grundfos in Austria received an order for 4 300 large UPE pumps for one of the largest district heating renovation projects in Europe when the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the country’s 15 largest towns recently started renovation on a large number of heating facilities in their apartment blocks.

For many years APV has been renowned as a supplier of pumps for the food industry, but the company also has expertise in other industries. For example, APV’s range of positive displacement pumps is used for the production of cosmetics and dyestuffs.